 First edition, stated fourth printing: The two-volume “Traveller's Companion” edition (no. 66 in that series) of one of the most controversial classics of 20th-century literature. Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press specialized in providing the types of books that would be automatically banned in Britain and the United States; in addition to Lolita, it was the first to publish Donleavy's Ginger Man as well as avant-garde and controversial works by prominent Beat writers including William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso, along with numerous exuberantly pornographic works penned pseudonymously by members of the Paris expatriate community.

 Father Najera (1803–53) was a native of Mexico, a member of the Zacatecas Literary Academy, and a highly respected self-taught linguist, who while in political exile in Philadelphia in the 1830s presented this study of the Otomi language on 6 March 1835 before the membership of the American Philosophical Society. With this publication, Najera became the first person to publish a study in the U.S. of any Mexican indigenous language.

This edition is reprinted from the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (“Ex quinto tomo novae seriei Actorum Societatis philosophiae americanae decerpta”).

Provenance:Bookplate and small stamp of the Library of the Supreme Council, 33o, A.A.S.R., Southern Jurisdiction, U.S.A. (i.e., Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite).

 Sabin 52131; Newberry Library, Ayer Indians, Otomi 20; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2695 (not having seen a copy). 1870s-era half dark red morocco with marbled paper sides; title, author, and date of publication on leather of front cover. Front cover expertly reattached using Japanese long-fiber method, volume sound as well as handsome. Small stamp as above, on title-page and in one other place, with typical pencilling to former; scattered foxing. A very good copy. (35412)

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 Nancy's treatise on the philosophy of portraiture was issued in a trade edition and a limited edition. This is a copy of the limited edition of 80 copies containing an original water color portrait by François Martin: 70 were numbered and for sale, five were lettered and for the artist, and five were lettered and not for sale.

This is number 21 of the 70 numbered, with the water color being a version of the frontispiece on heavy artists' paper and signed by the artist with his initials.

 Original wrappers with a glassine dust jacket; front wrapper and title-page with publisher's “scribble” device above imprint as seen on other titles from this press. Very good. (35646)

 Chiswick Press reprint and loosely accurate facsimile of Elizabethan poet and Puritan Googe’s 1570 English translation of Naogeorg’s “fierce denunciation of the superstitions of the Roman branch of the Church Catholic in its period,” with scholarly prefatory matter and commentary.

Evidence of Readership: A previous reader has marked specific passages in pencil through perhaps a third of the text and left a scrap of paper with notes on word choices tucked in at back.

Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

 NSTC 0401732. Half black roan in imitation of morocco and burgundy paper–covered boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; rubbed with some loss of paper, waterstaining along bottom edges of boards only. Light to moderate age-toning with a handful of spots or stains, a few creased leaves from manufacture, readership marks as above. A good clean copy of a handsome book from this excellent press in its “retrospective” mode. (37921)

 First appearance with Dwiggins' illustrations: An acclaimed limited-editionOverbrook Press printing of Nathan's delicate, melancholy tale of a former antiques dealer, a violinist, and a streetwalker doing their best to survive a bitter winter at the start of the Depression. A friendly street cleaner and his wife provide some aid to the homeless trio, while the despairing president of a failing bank complicates their precarious situation. The novel was turned into a film in 1935, and a radio play in 1953.

W.A. Dwiggins designed the volume and provided a total of18 hand-stencilled color illustrations: 16 scenes at the start of the chapters, plus vignettes for the title-page and colophon. This isone of 750 copies printed, signed at the colophon by the artist.

Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Paul A. Bennett, director of typography for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company and founding member of the Typophiles; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

 First edition of an important anthology of writings by writers of the Lost Generation: Includes Henry Miller's first book appearance sharing space with pieces by 51 other Americans including Conrad Aiken, Djuna Barnes, Kay Boyle, Malcolm Cowley, Caresse Crosby, Harry Crosby, E.E. Cummings, John Dos Passos, Emma Goldman, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene Jolas, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, Laura Riding, Gertrude Stein, and William Carlos Williams. Each piece is preceded by a brief biography, two of which aremost notably brief: Hemingway's (''Born Oak Park, Ill., July 21, 1898") and Pound's (“I can't bloody well be bothered to write my own biography”).

This copy in the first of two bindings, with some sources hinting that the second indicates a remainder.

 On the precedence of bindings, see Ahearn & Ahearn, Collected Books. First of two bindings, this being full off-white cloth. A notoriously very fragile book, this copy with only the brittle endpapers across the hinges (inside) cracked, not the hinges themselves; two short tears (one repaired) to front free endpaper. Without the dust jacket. A very good copy. (33391)

 Second, expanded edition, following the first of the previous year, of the author’s second published book. In addition to the title piece, the volume includes“Goldau: Or the Maniac Harper,” along with a few shorter works. Neal, who went on to become a prominent voice in 19th-century American literature, describes in the preface here his distress over the first edition, which he calls “crowded and disfigured with innumerable errors — chiefly typographical, however; though in some cases, whole lines were left out . . .” Alas, this edition also required an errata leaf.

 BAL 14856; Shaw & Shoemaker 48824; Wegelin 1066. On Neal, see: Dictionary of American Biography, XIII, 398–99. Period-style quarter tan cloth over light blue paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Dedication page and a few others (not including title) stamped by a now-defunct institution. Waterstaining to upper margins and some inner page parts, with final leaves darkened and a few spotted with foxing. Some upper edges chipped; final leaf with inner margin repaired. (13727)

 Scarce first edition: biography and analysis of the Hungarian-British author, journalist, and political activist, with a foreword by Michael Foot, who praises him as an anti-Soviet socialist; at this date the arc of Koestler's philosophical evolutions had yet some ways to go, but Darkness at Noon had been published in 1941 and this is a leitmotif.

 The final chapter conveniently extracted from Stephani Nigri Elegantissime è Graeco authorum subditorum translationes, Negri's didactic Latin translations of works by famous Greek authors. Negri (Stephanus Niger, d. ca. 1540) was a professor of Greek in that city. The selected text is composed of five chriae, or themes for rhetorical exercises, followed by three introductory lectures on Homer, Pindar, and Livy that Negri delivered at Milan “In publico Gymnasio,” at school.

Printed in Latin and Greek, in roman and italic, this has a (sectional) title-page with its text framed in a wide ornamental border of acanthus leaves and flowers. In text are a number of ornate woodcut initials in white against a white-floriated background.

Evidence of readership: Early ink annotations in a few margins (partially cut off at the time of rebinding).

Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

 Friendship volume: poems, earnest Christian sentiments, and general good wishes, lovingly and often very prettily inscribed by a variety of friends and acquaintances. Bylines include Ohio towns Damascus, Providence, Salem, and Carmel as well as Brownsville, Pennsylvania. An illustrated engraved title-page and three picturesque little images are bound in, along with a few leaves of blue and yellow paper. Sentiments, a good many signed in full and dated, appear generally on the rectos, which are nearly all “taken”; some also appear on versos or inked around images on plate pages.

While the date of this album does not lend itself to establishing ownership by the Mary M. Negus known as a pioneering woman lawyer and temperance activist (that lady having been born in 1838), it seems possible that there may be a family connection. A later family member appears also to have been confounded by this volume's source — a laid-in slip says “From Mother – origin??”

 Original quarter straight-grain roan with tan paper–covered sides, spine gilt-stamped, leather edges with gilt roll; binding rubbed overall with much loss of spine gilt, hinges (inside) cracked. Some pages foxed or stained. Charmingly representative of a particular type of elevated sentiment of the early 19th century,
and interesting documentation of a (presumably young) lady's social circle. (36466)

Nelson, Robert. An address to persons of quality and estate ... To which is added, an appendix of some original and valuable papers. [with another related title, as below]. London: A. & G. Way, prs., 1715. 8vo (21.9 cm, 8.6"). Frontis., xxxi, [1], 267, [1], 55, [7] pp. [with] A poem in memory of Robert Nelson Esquire. London: Pr. by Geo. James for Richard Smith, at Bishop Beveridge’s-Head, 1715. 8vo. 21, [3] pp.$675.00

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 First edition: Nelson, a philanthropist and popular religious writer, reminds the wealthy and well bred of their charitable obligations as Christians. After exhorting the rich to consider their salvation, Nelson solicits their support for such endeavors as building churches, funding the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, maintaining poor clergy and their families, founding seminaries and schools, relieving prisoners, and establishing houses for the improvement of ladies (both proper and fallen). The appendix provides texts of various proposals as well as statistics onnumbers of residents in hospitals and schools.

The frontispiece portrait of Nelson was engraved by George Vertue after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller. The volume also includes all publisher's advertisements as well as the rather uncommon Poem in Memory of Robert Nelson Esquire.

This was produced to be a handsome work, printed in large type on good paper with wide margins — the better to appeal to a “quality” audience?

 Otomí is one of the principal languages spoken in Central Mexico, and this work, more than any other, standardized its orthography; it is also the classic Otomí grammar and dictionary, and is by a man some authorities believe to have been himself an Otomí Indian, or at least of Otomí heritage. It was written during the mid-18th-century renaissance of linguistic study of the languages of Mexico, and Palau considers it “muy rara.” (It is much rarer on the market, in our experience, than similarly important works in Nahuatl.)

Both the engraved frontispiece and the engraved errata leaf are signed by the engraver Jose Francisco Gomez; the former, often, is not present but it ishere in very good state.

 Medina, Mexico, 5174; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 55; Viñaza 356; Maggs, Bibl. Amer., II, 2154; Sabin 52413; Palau 190159; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2738. Contemporary vellum, now shrunk to smaller than the size of the text block, with newer endpapers, ties lacking, light to moderate staining and wear to interior; housed in a custom slipcase of quarter vellum and cranberry-colored cloth with a cloth chemise. A good copy of an important and scarce book, complete and with a good provenance. (31417)

 The viceroy publishes this announcement that the king has appointed him to carry out the residencia hearing into the administration of his predecessor, the Count Revillagigedo. Copy initialed by Branciforte and countersigned by José Ignacio Negreyros y Soria.

Apparently held by only one U.S. library.

This copy was sent to the town of Tulancingo; it has docketing information on the blank verso stating that it was received there and thatJuan de la Cruz, a bilingual Indian, read the decree to a large crowd on market day, 15 January 1795.

 Not in Medina, Mexico. Very good condition. Small longitudinal fold tears in the very middle of the leaf. (33683)

 First edition, limited to 500 copies, of which this is numbered copy 226. The work is illustrated with examples of some of the most significant illustrations and colophons found in the LEC oeuvre; the colophon here is signed by Mortimer J. Adler, who provided the preface.

Newton, Isaac. Observations upon the prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. In two parts. Dublin: Pr. by S. Powell, for Goerge Risch, George Ewing, and William Smith, 1733. 8vo (20 cm; 7.75"). iv, [4], 320 pp.$2000.00

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 First edition printed in Ireland. In addition to being a physicist, mathematician, and natural philosopher, Sir Isaac Newton was something of a Biblical scholar as well, as shown by the present exegesis on apocalyptic texts. His analysis generally reads as being practical in nature — as the New Catholic Encyclopedia (X, 428) says, “Newton's writings on apocalyptical prophecies were not mystical or millenarian in any sense, but more exercises in deciphering cryptograms.” They comport with our sense of him as someone who believed in the scientific method!

Printed with a two-page, small-type list of the subscribers to this Irish edition, some entries noting a profession or a locality.

 Wallis, Newton, 328.2; ESTC T18642. Recent full brown calf, Cambridge style binding: Round spine, raised bands accented with single gilt rules above and below each, gilt center device in five spine compartments; black spine label, gilt. Covers tooled in blind with center compartment with corner devices; new endpapers. Old rubber-stamp along inner margin of title, with another to lower margin of dedication page and an inked line of presentation to its gutter; age-toning and stray stains. A good+ copy of the uncommon Dublin edition. (33120)

 Third edition; a new edition, with the citations translated, and notes by P. Borthwick
. . . of Downing College, Cambridge.”

 Publisher's quarter green cloth with paper-covered boards. Rebacked
in sympathetic cloth and new paper label (antique style) applied. Boards show
age-stains and wear but are solid. Old library pressure-stamp on title-page.
In an open back slipcase of green library cloth; spine of box with author,
title, and call number in gilt. A nice copy, sound for reading. (21773)

New York (state). Democratic-Republican Party. Broadside. Begins, “To the electors of the Western District. Fellow-citizens, In a few days you will again be called upon to exercise the distinguishing privilege of Freemen — that of electing your Representatives to the Legislature. In discharging this duty, the great body of the people only want correct information, and they will generally choose the most able and faithful men to legislate for them.” New York state: no publisher/printer, [1806?]. Folio (39 cm, 15.5"). [1] f. (verso blank).$1000.00

 A wall posting of the so-called “Lewisites” or “Quids,” the faction of the Democratic-Republican party that supported Gov. Morgan Lewis of New York against the faction led by New York City Mayor DeWitt Clinton. This supports four candidates, “friends of the present administration [i.e., Gov. Morgan Lewis],” to fill vacancies in the Western District of the New York State Senate; the candidates, all former members of the state assembly, are Freegift Patchin, of Schoharie, Evans Wharrey, of Herkimer, John McWhorter, of Onondaga, and Joseph Annin, of Cayuga. Their names are printed at the end, followed by the words “The People's Choice” in bold letters. Included are attacks on the character of the opposing candidates, Salmon Buell, John Ballard, Nathan Smith, and Jacob Gebhard, and of particular interest is a spirited defense of the controversial Merchants' Bank. An interesting window into the factional struggles within the party and the growing dominance of the western district in state politics. Text printed in double columns.

Rare. We fail to trace any copies via OCLC.

 Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. As issued, with old folds. Short tear and spot in blank area of inner margin. A clean, very good copy. (24637)

Nicholls [a.k.a., Niccols, Nicols], John. A declaration of the recantation of Iohn Nichols (for the space almoste of two yeeres the Popes scholer in the Englishe seminarie or college at Rome) which desireth to be reconciled, and receiued as a member into the true Church of Christ in England ... London: Imprinted by Christopher Barker, 1581. Small 8vo (14.5 cm; 5.75"). [98] ff.$5750.00

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 Nicholls (1555–84?) was educated at Brasenose but did not take a degree. Instead, he left upon completion of his course work and returned to his native Glamorgan, Wales, where he soon obtained a curacy. In 1577 he left his position, gave up his allegiance to the Church of England, travelled to Rome, and voluntarily submitted himself to theInquisition where he formally recanted his Protestantism. He was welcomed warmly into the Roman Catholic Church, and in 1580 was back in England.

He was arrested in Islington, London, sent to the Tower, recanted his Catholicism, became an informer denouncing various Catholics of his acquaintance. His allegiance changed yet again in 1582, in Rouen, where he recanted his most previous recantation and wasvery cautiously received back in the Church of Rome. Death came soon after.

“Nicholls died on the continent in want and, probably, depression, most likely in 1584. He has been condemned by biographers for his want of constancy in what are assumed to be genuine, if bewildering, changes of faith and profession. Yet it may have been the case that there was a kind of cynical consistency in his animal sense of self-preservation, one actively encouraged by the systems of religious repression and polarization under which he managed for a while to operate with some success” (ODNB). He was clearly one of the most troubled figures in the history of Recusancy.

This copy of his Declaration has setting 2 of the title-page, setting 1 of leaf N1r, and setting 1 of L1r (see ESTC). The title-page has a handsome, elaborate woodcut frame/border in a typical “Barker” style; the prefatory “epistola” is printed in italics, the preface in roman, and the text in gothic (i.e., black letter).

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and ESTC locate only seven U.S. libraries reporting ownership of this, not one a Catholic institution.

 First edition of Saint Nilus of Sinai's Sententiae morales as translated by Willibald Pirckheimer from the Greek to Latin. Both talented men were great supporters of others in their lifetimes, Nilus being “a leading ascetical writer of the 5th century” while defending St. John Chrysostom, and German humanist Pirckheimer (1470–1530) befriending both the illustrator Albrecht Durer and the theologian Erasmus (Holweck, Biographical Dictionary of the Saints, p. 745). At the end here, on the final two leaves, is a sermon of St. John of Damascus, “Ex Sanctiss, Patriss [sic] Ioannis Damasceni sermonibvs.”

A woodcut border cut in reverse (i.e., the background is black and the figures are white) with Pirckheimer's coat of arms and Grecian decoration, originally attributed to Durer but now attributed to Durer's pupil Hans Springinklee (ca. 1490/ 1495 – ca. 1540), adorns the title-page; the border was first used in Plutarchi Chaeronei de his qui tarde a numine corripintur libellus (1513).

Evidence of Readership: Words and phrases of text have been underlined in early ink, with one word added marginally
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Provenance: Illustrated bookplate of 20th-century German book collector Ida Schoeller on front pastedown; later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear. A pre-WWII German bookseller's description has been pasted on the rear pastedown.

 VD16 N1760. On the title-page, see: Dodgson, German and Flemish Woodcuts, I, p. 379. Modern boards covered in an incunable leaf, light glue action to endpapers; small interior tear (or short slim wormtrack) to title-page and its top edge closely trimmed affecting edge of woodcut border. Readership/provenance markings as above, moderate age-toning and foxing with a few marginal spots/stains. A good copy of an apparently unusual little work. (37818)

“No Time Server,” & “Red-Jacket”. Broadside. Begins, “Of all the strange and unaccountable things which have appeared during the present electioneering campaign, the Federal Bucktail Address, which has lately been put into circulation is the most so.” New York state: no publisher/printer, 1820. Folio (34 cm, 12.75"). [1] f. (verso blank).$975.00

 A wall posting of the Democratic-Republican party supporting incumbent DeWitt Clinton for Governor of New York in the 1820 elections against Vice-President Daniel D. Tompkins, the candidate of the Tammany-Virginia wing of the party. The document is a direct reply to the anti-Clinton Federal Bucktail Address (signed on 14 April 1820) and its signatories, a group of 40 men known as the “high-minded Federalists.” Named members include John Duer and Rufus King. Of particular interest is the author's contention that the group misrepresented the nature of their opposition to the War of 1812. Signed in type: “No Time Server. April 19th, 1820.”

Several lines of text at the base of the document are headed “The Seminole Federalists,” an unflattering soubriquet given to the faction of Federalists who opposed the Clinton administration. This section is signed in type, “Red-Jacket.”

 Not in Shoemaker. As issued, with some later folds. Inch-long tear within first line of text, costing one word and portions of two or three letters, without affecting sense. Tear above center fold snaking five lines of text, touching letters from seven words without costing any text. Thumbnail-sized chip in center, affecting portions of three lines and costing several complete words but little sense. Lightly foxed. (24635)

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 Beautiful and scarce. This is signedno. 1 of an edition of 150 on Japan paper (there were also 10 on “papier vélin” re-imposed in 4s) color printed and with watercoloring after the original by Henri Caruchet, the coloring executed under his direction by artists at the atelier of A. Charpentier et Fils. The title-page is printed in red and black, with Soeur Béatrix's face in a central medallion of blue, grey, and white.

This volume for connoisseurs offers two distinct parts: first, the text printed and all the illustrations present as fully colored, delicately washed in shades of pink, blue, purple, grey, white, and earth tones; and second, a set of the illustrations in proofs uncolored and without text. Most of the illustrations in both suites areinitialed by Caruchet.

Jean Emmanuel Charles Nodier (1780–1844) was a French author and librarian, appointed to the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in 1824. His literary stylemuch influenced the Romantics, including Victor Hugo and Alfred de Musset. This legend, first published in La Revue de Paris (1838), is representative of his fantastical oeuvre. It was later adapted into a French opera (Béatrice, 1914) and a film (1923).

Provenance: An initialed ink inscription beneath the Justification du tirage states this copy was “Offert à Madame Conquet” — who must have been related toM.L. Conquet, “the great Paris publisher of works of the romantic school,” whose publications were famous for being very limited editions and for the “high artistic quality of their illustrations” (“Books and Authors,” The New York Times, 26 March 1898).

 Nogaret (1740–1831) was perhaps more noted as France's theatrical censor or as the Freemason responsible for various Masonic hymns than as an author — with one exception, that being his story about an automaton created by a man named Frankenstein, predating Shelley's by almost 30 years. In the present collection (originally published in 1780), he gathers some of his own poems, short stories, and literary essays, including “La Main Chaude,” “Délire bachique,” and “Bouquet à Jean” along with pieces by other contemporary hands. This isone of only 30 copies printed on papier de Chine, this example with an extra suite of platesbound in offering a second state of the frontispiece and the eleven headpiece engravings by Duplessis-Bertaux.

 A reworking of Christian Koerber's Lexicon particularum Ebraicarum, but really rather more: A work that combines the characteristics of an Old Testament Hebrew concordance, an O.T. Aramaic concordance, a particle dictionary of Hebrew, and a Latin dictionary of Hebrew. Here in a later edition.

 This offering of Mutiny on the Bounty carries a short preface by the authors and an excerpt from the biography of Midshipman Peter Heywood, one of the Bounty's survivors, written by Royal Navy Lieutenant John Marshall, who in turn based his account on the private journal of James Morrison.

The illustrations are 16 full-page watercolors and 15 in-text monochrome line drawings by Fletcher Martin, who has also signed the colophon. George Macy designed the book using an intertype Garamond font printed at the Garamond Press in Baltimore, MD; chapter initials are printed in green, sepia, and orange inks. The binding is full brown sheepskingold-stamped on the spine with the title and a design of two cat-o'-nine-tails, and also on the front with a design (perhaps not coincidentally) of five surly-looking seamen. Top edges are gilt.

This is copy number 1157 out of 1500 printed.

 Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club 178. Binding as above, with the leather rubbed at spine and (lightly) at joints, gently refurbished; one small, very light spot to fore-edge not entering margins. In a slipcase slightly darkened in portions, sturdy and undamaged. (35465)

 First edition, untrimmed copy of this response to a piece by Pierre Suzor, the
Constitutional bishop of Tours, with the text of Suzor's letter included at the front. Here, the curé
of St-François-de-Paule in Tours defends the clergy of the Gallican Church.

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only four U.S. institutional holdings.

 Martin & Walter 25914. Removed from a nonce
volume, paper adhesions to gutter of last leaf associated with this. Title-page with affixed paper
shelving label in lower inner corner, pencilled monogram and small early inked annotation in
upper portion, and very neatly early inked author information added beneath title. Dust-soiling,
last few leaves with some staining, final leaf with short tear from upper margin, just barely
touching text without loss. (30806)

Norris, John. Treatises upon several subjects, formerly printed singly, now collected into one volume. London: Printed for S. Manship at the Ship near the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill, 1697. 8vo (19.2 cm; 7.625"). [16], 448, 443–506 pp.$650.00

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 This first edition compilation contains Norris' “Reason and Religion;” “Reflections Upon the Conduct of Human Life;” “A sermon preach'd in the Abby Church of Bath;” “The charge of schism continued;” “Two treatises concerning the divine light,” a response to Quakers offended by an earlier publication; and “Spiritual counsel: or, the father's advice to his children,” a much softer piece written for his four children. Text also includes two advertisement leaves of “Books printed for S. Manship.”

The Rev. Norris (1657–1712), rector of Bemerton near Salisbury (“Sarum” as the title-page fashions it), was an Anglican divine, a poet, a Platonist, and a prominent disciple of Malebranche, and a noted opponent of Locke and critic of philosophical writings.

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, collector. Catalogue of the remaining portion of the library of the late Earl of Guilford, removed from Corfu ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans. [London]: Pr. by W. Nicol [for Robert Harding Evans], 1835. 8vo (22.9 cm, 9"). [2], 103, [1] pp. [with] Catalogue of the library of a gentleman; with another collection, a series of most curious autograph letters, documents, and manuscripts, and a few articles of the late Earl of Guilford. [London]: Pr. by W. Nicol [for Robert Harding Evans], 1835. 8vo. [2], 74 pp.$850.00

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 TWO priced auction catalogues from the firm of Robert Harding Evans: The first covers an eight-day sale of portions of the remarkable collection amassed by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, and is completely priced but does not indicate successful bidders. The second includes a collection of Arabic and Persian manuscripts and printed books as well as a “most curious collection of autograph letters and documents of Isaac Walton, Johnson, Burke, Percy, Gray, Goldsmith, Allan Ramsay, Lord Chesterfield, &c.”; it is priced only for the fifth day of the sale and includes the names of the successful bidders. (The fifth day offered the autographs, manuscripts, and foreign language books and manuscripts.)

Both catalogues are now uncommon: WorldCat locates only two U.S. institutional holdings of the first, and just one of the second.

Evidence of Use/Readership: Beyond the extensive annotation noted above, of prices and sometimes purchasers, there is occasional other commentary; a number of pages have been hand-ruled in red.

Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

 Contemporary half vellum with brown paper–covered sides, spine with elegantly hand-inked publication information; binding worn and dust-soiled, with paper chipped. Annotations and marginalia as above. Minor foxing to first and last few leaves.
Evocative and atmospheric in and of itself as a relic of high-level 19th-century biblophilia, and full of potentially useful data. (37756)

 First English edition of the famous prophecies often credited with predicting historical events ranging from the Great Fire of London to Hitler to the Challenger space shuttle disaster. Nostradamus aspired to be a doctor but instead was a practicing apothocary and botanic healer; Theophilus de Garencières (1610–80), the translator of this volume, was a French apothecary working in England and, though he asks readers to “forgive him his Anglicisme” as he is not a native speaker, his work isvigorous and very readable.

Following a few prefaces and a short history of Nostradamus' life here arethe prognosticating quatrains in the original French followed by a word for word English translation and commentary, sometimes quite extensive, on the specific passage. Some amusing comments include “this stanza requireth no interpretation more, than what every one will be please to give himself” and“no body can tell what to make of it.”

The title-page here is printed in red and black, with the remainder of the text being neatly set in single columns with roman and italic type; the frontispiece of Michael Nostradamus and Theophilus Garencières is lacking as is often the case.

Provenance: Large and elegantcircular manuscript bookplate of Margaret Hume with stars and a globe labeled “sapere aude” (“Think for yourself”) lightly attached to front fly-leaf.

 ESTC R13646; Wing (rev. ed.) N1399; Arber, Term Cat., I. 112. Recently rebacked old calf, red leather label and gilt lettering, ruling, and floral stamps on spine; boards rubbed with some loss of leather and corners sometime strengthened, new endpapers with light pencilling. Bookplate as above, light age-toning with a handful of small spots/stains, two gatherings with minuscule marginal wormtracking, one leaf with inked marginal notes smeared. A few leaves with a paper flaw, printshop stain, or gently rubbed type; two with a small piercing away from print and several more with a short marginal tear or chip, others missing a corner or sliver of margin but text completely present. A solid and enjoyable book of “secrets” ready to share its secrets with someone new. (36986)

 Kierkegaard published Forord (i.e., Preface) on the same day as Begrebet angest en simpel psychologisk-paapegende overveielse i retning af det dogmatiske problem om arvesynden (The Concept of Anxiety) and yes, they are related and intertwined. The fictional author Notabene seems capable of writing only prefaces and explains why they are important, criticizing those who skip over them. How this work intersects with the other is that both concern mediation. As one anonymous writer notes, Notabene “is mediated by his wife as well as his reviewer”; the fictional author of The Concept of Anxiety, Haufniensis, is against his knowledge of sin being mediated by Adam.

Interesting explorations of mediation are presented by both “authors” and the topic is of course explored again in later works.

The manuscript completions were sworn in Puebla de los Angeles on 14 September 1590, before the notary Marcos Reyes. Francisco Hernandez de Tinoco, a citizen of Puebla, gives power of attorney to Hernan Perez, a “procurador de causas,” who is not present.

Our attribution to printer is based on the type used and stylistics of composition.

 Edwin A. Carpenter, A Sixteenth-Century Mexican Broadside (i.e., The Valtón Collection), possibly type 14, 15, or 16. Not in Szewczyk & Buffington, 39 Books and Broadsides Printed in America before the Bay Psalm Book. Removed from a bound volume with worming in margins and into text, touching but not costing letters; age-toning. Light waterstain in upper margin. A good example of a Mexican incunable broadside. (34744)

 Assembled here are short biographies of members and honorary members, stories of various furnishings of the club house, episodes in the history of the club, and details of the club's library.

Limited to 315 copies, “[t]his book was printed at the Yellow Barn Press . . . during the summer of 1991. It has been set in 15 point Perpetua designed earlier this century by Eric Gill. . . . The paper is Rives. . . . The book was bound at the Campbell-Logan Bindery. . . . John DePol designed the pattern paper for the covers. Neil Shaver printed the book on a Vandercook III. Denise Brady folded and collated the edition” (colophon).

DePol also provided thenumerous wood engravings that enhance the text. This is copy 303.

Presentation copy from DePol: “For Morris Gelfand, old friend, with warm regards . . . John DePol December 3, 1991.” Gelfand was the proprietor of The Stone House Press.

 Typographic keepsakes: a celebration of the tenth Oak Knoll Fest, dedicated to fine printing. Present here as a gathering of unbound leaves are 33 remarkable broadsheets designed and printed by the Aardvark Press, the Alembic Press, Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press, Michael Peich, Jan and Crispin Elsted of the Barbarian Press, Michael Andrews of the Bombshelter Press, the Celtic Cross Press, Éditions du Silence, David Esslemont of the Solmentes Press, the Fleece Press (with an engraving by Jane Lydbury), Gwasg Gregynog, Robin Price and Anne Thompson, the Harsimus Press, the Hill Press, Graham Moss and Kathy Whalen of the Incline Press, the Inky Parrot Press, the Kat Ran Press, Craig Jobson of the Lark Sparrow Press, Abigail Rorer of the Lone Oak Press, the Midnight Paper Sales Press (with illustration by Gaylord Schanilec, the sheet signed by Schanilec and numbered 108 out of 166), Carolee Campbell at the Ninja Press, the Old School Press, the Perpetua Press, Bernard Bracaval of the Pré Nian Press, Sebastian Carter of the Rampant Lions Press, Walter Bachinski and Janis Butler of the Shanty Bay Press, the Sherwin Beach Press, the Walking Bird Press, the Warwick Press (signed by Carol J. Blinn), the Whittington Press, the Woodside Press (a delightful oversized, folded broadside setting forth the rules of tea in the printing shop), and Neil Shaver of the Yellow Barn Press (“How to Dun a Deadbeat Book Customer,” an attractive resetting of a letter from the Roycrofters). The leaves offer an impressive variety of papers, fonts, and design elements, with many bearing original illustrations.

The portfolio was assembled at the Campbell-Logan Bindery; this isnumbered copy 16 out of 125 copies, signed by Bob Fleck at the colophon.

 During his life Bernardino Ochino seems always to have been searching for something more. In 1504 he joined the Observant Franciscans, pursued a wide range of studies, and rose to be a provincial and later the vicar of the Cisapline province. But that was not enough and in 1534 he joined the stricter Capuchin Franciscans, rising to serve as their vicar-general. He ranged beyond the convent walls and was a very popular preacher.

By 1542 he had come to the attention of the authorities in Rome who, having read his writings, exposed some of his beliefs as Protestant, especially with regards to the doctrine of justification. He fled to Geneva, then later to London, Zurich, Cracow, and eventually Slavkov, where he died of the plague. While in London (1547–53) he wrote the Labyrinth, originally in Italian but translated for publication into Latin, here, assailing the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination. The other work of his published in this volume, on the Last Supper of Christ, was also written in Italian: It also makes its first appearance in print here, also in Latin translation.

In this copy the Labyrinth is misbound first; it is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. The date of the printing of this volume remains uncertain with some assigning it to 1561 and others to 1563.

Binding: 18th-century brown morocco, spinegilt over-the-top extra and with the gilt supra- libros of Count Hoym. All edges gilt over old marbled edges. With a silk place marker.

Provenance: From the library of Count Hoym; and with the late-19th-, early-20th-century bookplate of Charles Thomas-Stanford.

 A now-uncommon dime novel, No. 77 in the “Old Sleuth's Own” series: a shrewd young illustrator, newly arrived in New York City, embroils himself in the hunt for a missing heiress. WorldCat locates only four U.S. institutional holdings.

 The death of Pope Clement XIV sent Mexico's best sermonizers into overdrive: Present here are sermons by two Dominican and two Franciscan preachers (Jose Olmedo, Jose Gallegos, Cosme Enriquez Guerrero, and Antonio Blanco Valez), each with a sectional title and separate pagination.

Binding: Contemporary wrappers of the decorative paper known as “Dutch Gilt” (but actually produced in Germany or Italy). This example is embossed in imitation of a brocade pattern.

 Medina, Mexico, 5820; Sabin 13627; Palau 144769. Corners bumped and small rents in the wrappers with a little loss; waterstaining very noticeable in text of last four leaves and to rear wrapper. A good copy. (34762)

 Contains the Persian text of Daulat Shah Alai Samarkandi and the translation of the texts as edited by Justus Olshausen and Julius Mohl. An important text on the lasting influence of Zoroaster and with the life of the great poet Ferdusi (i.e., f Abu-'l Kasim Mansur).

 19th-century German boards covered with black mottled paper; abraded. Paper author/title label on spine, call number label on front cover. Ex-library with bookplate on front pastedown and call number in pencil on verso of title-page. No other markings. (19137)

 First edition: Stand-alone printing of a particularly evocative sequence from
Olsen's novel Dorit in Lesbos, dedicated to Alan Peacock (given here as Allen). This interesting
Perishable Press printing was handset in Gill Sans and printed on Shadwell paper, made by Kent
Kasuboske “back in the Oligocene sometime” according to the colophon; the work is illustrated
with an oversized, folding plate and other designs by Lane Hall.

The present example isnumbered copy 49 of 107 printed, signed by the authorat the
end of the text.

 First edition of this collaboration between Olson and Walter Hamady of the Perishable Press, with a title variance commented upon in the postface; while the half-title calls this Three & One, the title-page gives Four Poems, with the Perishable Press bibliography using the former. The typeface was Sabon-Antiqua printed in blue, maroon, black, and grey on Frankfurt and Frankfurt Cream papers, sewn into blue marbled paper wrappers, and the poems areillustrated with two intricate drawings by Mary Laird, hand-tinted with colored pencils by the printer. 145 copies were printed.

Provenance: This copy inscribed, in an angular, decorative hand (presumably Hamady's), to a contemporary bookseller and archivist, with the inscription dated 1976.

 Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 76. Wrappers as above, with very faint traces of wear to extremities, otherwise clean and fresh. It should be noted that the hand-tinting is to small portions of the illustrations only, and very subtle in tone; inscription, as above, large and bold. A nice copy of this “first,” with an interesting inscription. (37227)

 First edition: The second collaboration between Olson and Walter Hamady of the Perishable Press, who eventually produced a total of seven books together. Signed by the author at the dedication, this is numbered copy 36 of 200 printed — of which only 140 copies were for sale. The text is Palatino “hand-set by the PPL's new partner . . . Mary Hamady” (according to the colophon), printed in red, black and tan on handmade Fabriano paper; Two Decades describes the gilt front-cover image as “Jack Beal's drawing of worms literally turning into nails.”

 A humorous rendition of the playwright's own youthful romantic indiscretions, here with an introduction by Walter Kerr, red and blue decorations drawn by Sylvie Roizen, and
eight full-color plates (four of which are double-page spreads) printed by Holyoke Lithograph Co. from oil paintings by Shannon Stirnweis. The artist elected to “bring the reader into the setting as a member of the audience” (according to the newsletter) by depicting the first scene as if the viewer were sitting in the theater, with subsequent images moving the viewer on stage and sweeping the other audience members out of sight.

This isnumbered copy 1346 of 1500 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist. The appropriate Club newsletter and prospectus are both laid in. The volume was designed by Adrian Wilson, set in Monotype Kennerley and Mars types, and printed on Curtis wove paper by Clifford Burke at Mackenzie and Harris, Inc.

 Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 445. Publisher's quarter red cloth and firework-printed paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label, in original glassine wrapper and matching slipcase; glassine wrapper with small portion torn away from lower back edge and nicks to lower edge and spine head, slipcase with one nick to paper at one edge of foot, volume clean and lovely. Overall in beautiful condition. (34066)

 First published in 1940 and performed six years later on Broadway, O'Neill's drama about despair and disillusionment playing out at an American bar is considered one of the playwright's most ambitious and famous works.

For the present edition, limited to 2,000 copies of which this is number 1496, artist Leonard Baskin (1922–2000) designed the text using monotype Janson font and created nine full-page black and white drawings of O'Neill's characters, reproduced by Meriden Gravure Company, and one sanguine lithograph pulled on Arches paper by Fox-Graphics Editions. In her introductory essay, “O'Neill and Baskin: The Iconography of a Double Exposure,” art historian Irma Jaffe analyzes the illustrations and traces the parallels in the art and lives of the playwright (1888–1953) and Baskin, who has signed this below the colophon.

Binding: The play was printed and bound at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, VT, in full Curtis gray paper–covered boards with printed paper labels on the spine and front cover. It is rather bleak-looking — which is perfectly appropriate given the nihilistic theme of the play.

This offering includes the monthly newsletter.

 Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 525. Binding as above. Fine, in a fine slipcase. (30747)

 First edition, dedicated “to those who as poets and publishers have rescued a
nation's literature”; Walter Hamady, proprietor of the Perishable Press, was particularly pleased
with that dedication, saying “one of my favorite pages is the dedication page, 18 point Palatino
italic has a fine flow to it & the blind debossment of another geologic structure below it excites
me.” Like that blind-stamped illustration, his distinctive pressmark appears also in blind, at the
colophon — andthe copyright line (deliberately) appears in such a faint grey, overlying a
line on the title-page recto, that its near-invisibility caused issues with filing for copyright.

The text was set by hand in Palatino and Michaelangelo, and printed in black and grey on Shadwell paper; this is one of 250 copies printed.

 First edition: “Adornment of Body,” “The Jane St. Poem,” and “Autumn,” preceded by a collage illustration that Hamady (who called this production a personal favorite) described as “a 'lady-out-of-the-map' rising die-cut from a grommetted card pocket with a red halo.”

This isone of 228 copies “manually printed in this farmhouse parlour on various shadwell papers hand-formed in the barn,” according to the colophon, which also mentions that “sultry august is when we finish” [sic].

 First edition: A simply and strikingly designedPerishable Press printing of
these poems, written towards the end of Oppenheimer's life and published posthumously. They
appear here with an afterword by Oppenheimer's widow, Theresa Maier, and woodcut page
decorations byMargaret Sunday.

This is numbered copy 39 of 125 printed and it ishand-dedicated at the colophon to
Andrew Hedden, a notable collector of press books and livres d'artiste.

 First edition: Cleanly designed Perishable Press production, this being one of 210
copies andsigned by the author, illustrated with a wood engraving by Pati Scobey. The
colophon proclaims “This book is the first for the third decade of this press, and is the one-hundred-seventh since beginning in 1964" — it also thanks produce manager Randy Hagen for
saving onion skins over several months to facilitate the production of the handmade Shadwell
“Onionskin” cover stock.

 First separate printing of this poem, which Walter Hamady (proprietor
of thePerishable Press) described as “one
of Joel's most top-shelf poems . . . so tough and at the same time so tender
with a humanity as big as the planet.” The text is printed in black, brown,
and red on Arches and Nideggen papers, in a pamphlet binding handsewn by Hamady.

This is one of 130 copies printed and wassigned
by the author. The colophon features
Hamady's distinctive pressmark, calligraphed by Sheikh Nasib Makarem.

The pronouncements are here in the original Greek, with Latin translation (including
sidenotes) on the facing page. These are enhanced by Panvinio's study of the Oracles, extensive
elogia (testimonies by the ancient authors Plato, Ovid, Aristoteles . . . ), and Mallery's engravings
of the sibyls, all preceding the actual printing of the prophecies with notes and supplemental
material by Opsopäus.

The volume begins with a most handsome emblematic engraved title-page signed
C. De Mallery involving a ship at sea against a sky labeled “Lutetia”
(for Paris) surmounting an elaborate architectural frame containing the title
and incorporating elegant symbolic ladies and more, followed on the next leaves
by a dedication to the esteemed French collector Jacques-Auguste de Thou (Thuanus,
1553–1617). Beautiful floriated woodcut initials, factotum initials,
head- and tailpieces decorate the text, which is anexquisite
example of printing.

It seems that there were related texts printed at the same time that are sometimes found
bound with this in a variety of combinations, but this not universally.

 Adams S1061; Schweiger, I, 287. Period-style full dark
brown mottled calf tooled in blind, gilt title and tools to spine, red edges.
Small hole from natural flaw in upper corner of title-page and one other leaf;
oval-shaped spot in lower margin of title-page from an erasure (?), offset
onto the front fly-leaf; light age-toning and occasional foxing in some margins,
with a few stray ink marks from printing and maybe two or three dots from
oxidization of the paper. Accounting for these minor expectable flaws, the
present volume isreally very, very nice and the
portraits areterrific.
(30177)

 A complete set inextremely handsome old bindings of the works of Origen, the founder of the allegorical interpretation of scripture in biblical exegesis. Vols. I, II, and III
were printed in 1733 by Vincent but vol. IV was delayed until 1759 when Debure printed it .

All volumes areelegantly printedin double-column format placingthe original
Greek text in the inner columns, the Latin translation in the outer, and commentary/notes in a
smaller font below, with ease of navigation enhanced by additional side- and shouldernotes.
Title-pages in black and red, and initials and head- and tailpieces both woodcut and engraved,
grace and support the scholarly production; the title-pages are well laid out, the initials are
various and sometimes large. Threepage-spanning engravingsappear in addition, each one-third page in height, with the first two depicting Clement XII (with putti, after Gravelot and
signed by N. Dupuis) and the second depicting a complex scene of martyrdom (signed Jac. de
Savanne) — these in vol. I, while vol. IV boasts an unsigned companion image showing a scene
of judgment or law-giving.

Origen's works are among the foundational works of Christian thought and were read by
all of the church fathers. He had a profound influence on the history of ideas in the fields of
theology, philology, and preaching from late antique times to the present. Vols. I, II, and III
were edited by Charles de La Rue and IV by C.V. de La Rue.

 Late 18th- or early 19th-century speckled calf, round spine gilt extra, boards
plain; two red leather spine labels on each volume with author/title and volume number, all edges
marbled. Leather of four boards slightly abraded with loss of some leather, otherwise a binding
in remarkably good (and strong) condition, especially notable for tomes of this size. Ex-library
with bookplates but no stamps, the set generally shows offsetting from leather of binding to
endpapers and otherwise light foxing and the odd spot only, with light evidence of old, mild
exposure to moisture at some margins. A very handsome set in very good condition,
valuable both as precisely what it is *and* as representing a whole grand era/category of
scholarship and book production. (30931)

 Third edition of this handsome Phoenix Press production, following the first of 1839. The liturgical book used by the Eastern Orthodox Church during Lent and the weeks leading up to it appears here with the half-title, title-page, and text elegantly printed in red and black (with a lot of red), and with the text in double columns; the title-page bears a wood-engraved phoenix vignette and decorative border.

Uncommon: OCLC locates only two U.S. institutional holdings, one of which has since been deaccessioned.

 Quintessential Spanish folklore and wit, translated for French readers: Each of
these alphabetically organized proverbs is given in the original Spanish printed in roman type,
followed by the French in italics. At the back of the volume is a section ofrhymed proverbs
taken from Alonso Guajardo Fajardo's Proverbios morales (with non-rhyming French). This is
the third edition, corrected and expanded, following the first of 1605.

The compiler was a French polyglot, grammarian, and translator to King Louis XIII; he
holds the distinction of having been the first person to render Don Quixote in French.

 Illustrated with150 in-text wood engravings done by William B. Gihon, this important early treatise on the “practical utility” of the technology of the iron industry was written by a prominent mining engineer and metallurgist. The title-page proclaims, “Including a description of wood-cutting, coal-digging, and the burning of charcoal and coke; the digging and roasting of iron ore; the building and management of blast furnaces, working by charcoal, coke, or anthracite; the refining of iron, and the conversion of the crude into wrought iron by charcoal forges and puddling furnaces . . . to which is added, an essay on the manufacture of steel.” This is the second edition, following the first of the previous year.

 Attractive edition of the Ars Amatoria translated into German by Ernst Hohenemser. The title-page and the charming, individual, and in a few cases mildly erotic head- and tail-pieces were lithographed by Max Slevogt, a notable member of the Berlin Secession. Publisher Cassirer was an art dealer and editor who actively promoted and supported artists of the Secession and the French Impressionist School.

This is numbered copy 201 of 320 printed, of the eighteenth work to come from
Cassirer's Pan-Presse. The Lehrbuch is not widely institutionally held
in the U.S.; WorldCat findsonly
three American locations.

 Limited Editions Club edition of the E. Daymond Turner translation, with an introduction and notes by the translator. Theeight colored plates were drawn in Puerto Rico by Jack and Irene Delano, who both signed the colophon of this copy (number 733 out of 2000 printed), and serigraphed in San Juan by Pava Prints.

 Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 492. Binding as above, fresh and all but unworn, in the original slipcase with very slight dust-soiling to vellum. With the prospectus and the newsletter. (36337)

(OXFORD). Peshall (or Pechell), John. The history of the University of Oxford, to the death of William the Conqueror. Oxford: 1772. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). [2], 32, [6] pp. [with his] The history of the University of Oxford, from the death of William the Conqueror, to the demise of Queen Elizabeth. Oxford: Pr. by W. Jackson & J. Lister for J. & F. Rivington, 1773. 4to (27.3 cm, 10.75"). [4], 264, [2] pp.$2000.00

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 Bound together here are this author's first, 32-page history, tracing the story of education in Britain back to the Druids, and his much more extensive follow-up on Oxford's development including, e.g., passages onpolitics, religious controversies, town–gown contretemps, and epidemics. Sir John Peshall (sometimes given Pechell, formerly Pearsall), sixth baronet, was a clergyman and antiquary known for his philanthropic activities; he was himself an Oxford man (BA 1739, MA 1745).

 ESTC T63374 & T68757. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper–covered sides, rebacked and corners refurbished; marbled paper sides with surface wear. Front pastedown with bookplate as above, pastedown and free endpaper with small pencilled annotations. Octavo history with small portion torn away in outer margin (only) of final “Additions” leaf; quarto history with dust-soiling to title-page around edges of bound-in octavo and following leaves showing impression of bind-in. Occasional light foxing only, to both items, mostly confined to margins; quarto with a very few early inked corrections and annotations. (33314)